Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Moorhead, Carlos J.
- Abstract:
- Carlos J. Moorhead was the Representative for the Forty-third Assembly District of California from 1966 until 1972. Collection consists of correspondence, an extensive array of legislative material, and printed ephemera.
- Extent:
- 111 boxes (55.5 linear ft.)
- Language:
- Finding aid is written in English.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of correspondence, an extensive array of legislative material, and printed ephemera. Topics cover a broad range of issues reflective of Moorhead's long tenure, including those relating to antitrust, appropriations, the national budget, the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, California redistricting, commemorations and designations, Congressional reform, military defense, education, energy, the envionment, gun control, health care, immigration, intellectual property, judiciary matters, mass transit, telecommunications, and wages and benefits.
Glossary of Subject Terms used for the Carlos J. Moorhead Collection- Corr - Both formal and informal letters to and from Moorhead
- Dear Colleague Letter - Correspondence from and between Congressmen usually regarding pending legislation and petitions for bill sponsorship
- Bill summary - A brief synopsis of pending legislation, occasionally includes a bill's status and current sponsors.
- Legislative history summary - A synopsis of legislation which can include dates, original sponsors, and status in a committee.
- News clippings - Includes original articles on newsprint cut from a newspaper, photocopies of articles, news wires from Associated Press, Dow Jones, or Lexis-Nexis news services.
- Hearing Notice - A lengthy memo to Committee members which provides background, questions & answers, proposals, and amendments to pending legislation.
- Biographical / historical:
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Carlos J. Moorhead was born on May 5, 1922 in Long Beach, Calif. He graduated from Hoover High in Glendale (1940), UCLA (1943) and, after serving in WWII, USC Law School. He became the Representative for the Forty-third Assembly District of California from 1966 until 1972. During his tenure, Moorhead was vice chair of the Natural Resources, Planning and Public Works Committee, and a member of the California Law Revision Commission. Moorhead left the Assembly after being elected in 1972 to the U.S. House of Representatives. Upon beginning his term in the House in 1973, Moorhead served on the Judiciary Cte during the impeachment hearings of President Nixon. He served as Vice Chair of the Energy and Commerce Cte and of the Subcte on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration. He also was Republican dean of the California congressional delegation and was appointed to serve on the Federal Court Study Commission by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. Moorhead was a founding member of the California Institute for Federal Policy, a think tank formed to help inform California's congressional members.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Carlos J. Moorhead, 1996.
- Arrangement:
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Arranged in the following series:
- Affirmative action
- Anti-abortion
- Antitrust
- Appropriations
- Budget
- Burbank Airport
- California Institute
- California redistricting
- Commemoration/designation
- Commerce
- Congressional reform
- Defense
- Education
- Election campaign reform
- Elections
- Energy
- Environment
- Gun control
- Health care
- Immigration
- Intellectual property
- International relations
- Judiciary
- Legislation
- Mass transit
- Religious liberties
- Rose Bowl
- School prayer
- Taxation
- Telecommunications
- Wages and benefits
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988